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itfelf, with the appendages of greatnefs. 

 There are feafons, when a monarch may hold 

 converfe with the meaneft of his fubjects, 

 without injuring his dignity j but it is not the 

 feafon, when he is feated on his throne. A 

 foreft-fcene, introduced in picture, is intro- 

 duced with diftinction ; and calls for every 

 appendage of grandeur to harmonize with it. 

 The cottage offends. It mould be a caftle, a 

 bridge, an aquaduct, or fome other object that 

 fuits it's dignity. 



With regard to aquaducts indeed, the 

 Romans never fuffered wood to grow near 

 them, left it's roots, or feeds, fhould infmuate 

 themfelves into the crannies of the ftone, and 

 injure the work. But there can be no im- 

 propriety, at this day, in the introduction 

 of a ruined aquaduct amidft a woody fcene ; 

 as trees of any magnitude may be fuppofed 

 to have grown up, iince it had fallen to decay. 

 The fcenery about the celebrated ruins of 

 Pont-du-Gard in Languedoc is woody; and 

 the immediate environs of it have all the 

 rich furniture, at leaft they had lately, that 

 a painter would defire. 



Befides foreft-trees, in which the dignity 



of wood-land fcenery confifts, it is inriched 



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